!!! Overview 
Directory-Based Information Services ([{$pagename}], pronounced "dee-biss") is a replacement for the Network Information Service ([NIS]) and [RFC 2307]. Published as a series of Internet Drafts, [{$pagename}] seeks to modernise the way that users, groups and network services are defined and managed on UNIX and Linux systems. 

The Internet Drafts are currently available on the IETF website: 

* DBIS Mapping Objects: [draft-bannister-dbis-mapping|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-mapping.txt |target='_blank'] 
* DBIS Netgroups and Netservices: [draft-bannister-dbis-netgroup|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-netgroup.txt|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS Users and Groups: [draft-bannister-dbis-passwd|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-passwd.txt|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS Hosts, Networks and Services: [draft-bannister-dbis-hosts|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-hosts.txt|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS Devices: [draft-bannister-dbis-devices|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-devices.txt|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS Automounter: [draft-bannister-dbis-automounter|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-automounter.txt|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS Custom Maps: [draft-bannister-dbis-custom|http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-bannister-dbis-custom.txt|target='_blank'] 

Other articles about DBIS: 
* DBIS: [Distribution by design|http://technicalprose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/dbis-distribution-by-design.html|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS: [Distributed management|http://technicalprose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/dbis-distributed-management.html|target='_blank'] 
* DBIS: [Introducing Netservices|http://technicalprose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/dbis-introducing-netservices.html|target='_blank'] 

December 2014: the [DBIS Reference Implementation is complete!|https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbis/|target='_blank'] Available for download on [SourceForge.|https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbis/|target='_blank'] 

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* [#1] - [Introducing DBIS|http://technicalprose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/introducing-dbis.html|target='_blank'] - based on 2014-12-15